Children & Focusing Roundtable Series - Feldenkrais, Emerging Body Language (EBL) and Focusing
During this Roundtable we will explore new and more ways for "Listening Body-Buddies": Focusing, Feldenkrais and Emerging Body Language (EBL)
Elena and René met at the last CF conference Less is More and felt the similar passion for the integration of Feldenkrais, Body movement (EBL) and how our body movement, can support the unfolding Focusing process.
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Presented by The International Focusing Institute
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
5:00 - 7:00am PST
Location: Online via Zoom
Cost: The co-hosts are volunteering their time in order that this program may be brought to members of TIFI at no charge.
During this Roundtable we will explore new and more ways for "Listening Body-Buddies": Focusing, Feldenkrais and Emerging Body Language (EBL)
Elena and René met at the last CF conference Less is More and felt the similar passion for the integration of Feldenkrais, Body movement (EBL) and how our body movement, can support the unfolding Focusing process.
Questions and themes we want to explore together are:
- Why Feldenkrais & EBL can be so supportive of a Focusing process
- How to develop more awareness of the implicit bodily wisdom and to integrate its movements, gestures and implicit wanting into the Focusing process.
- What is the relation between body movements and the development stages
René Veugelers is a Coordinator specialising in Children’s Focusing, with an emphasis on the non-verbal world, René teaches parents, therapists, teachers and others how to be with children in a Focusing way, how to (re)connect to their own inner child experiences and how to integrate creativity and flexibility into their life and work. His work and experiences as a psychiatric nurse and as an art therapist with children, of any age, embraces an expanded richness of creative elements and supports a natural unfolding of creative process. René lives and works in the Netherlands, where he teaches Children Focusing and specializes in working with children with ADHD, ADD, trauma and attachment disorder.
Laura Bavalics is an early childhood educator, play mentor, and drama teacher. She is a Certified Focusing Professional and a Focusing-oriented educator, who has been working with young children, parents, and professionals for over twenty-five years. She is a professional director of the Pendula inclusive kindergarten program for children in foster care and with special needs at the Világszép Foundation in Hungary. She is also teaching at ELTE University, Hungary, in their College of Education. Laura is a member of the International Leadership Council and the Children's Focusing Advisory Board.
Harriet Teeuw is a Focusing Coordinator and Art Therapist, working in her own practice with children and adults in The Netherlands. Teaching “Dynamic Expressive Focusing” and Focusing International Online (Dream) Workshops and Certification Program for Focusing Practitioners: http://www.childrenfocusing.org; www.deruimte-info.nl
Registration info: Contact The International Focusing Institute with any questions: Phone: (845) 480-5111 Email: elizabeth@focusing.org
